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Copyright © 2014 by The New Yorker Magazine Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Simone Massoni All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. RANDOM HOUSE and the House colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC. All pieces in this collection, except as noted, were originally published in The New Yorker. The publication dates are given at the beginning or end of each piece. Letter reprinted by permission of The Shirley Jackson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA The 40s: the story of a decade / The New Yorker; edited by Henry Finder with Giles Harvey; introduction by David Remnick. pages cm ISBN 978-0-679-64479-8 eBook ISBN 978-0-679-64480-4 1. United States—History—1933–1945. 2. United States—History—1945–1953. 3. United States—Social life and customs—20th century. 4. United States—Social customs—1933–1945. 5. United States—Social customs—1945–1953. 6. United States—In literature. 7. New Yorker (New York, N.Y.: 1925). I. Finder, Henry. II. Harvey, Giles. III. New Yorker (New York, N.Y.: 1925). IV. New Yorker (New York, N.Y.: 1925). E806.f66 2014 973.917—dc23 2013047082 www.atrandom.com FIRST EDITION Book design by Simon M. Sullivan v3.1 Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction · David Remnick PART ONE · THE WAR A Note by George Packer Notes and Comment: September 2, 1939 · E. B. WHITE Paris Postscript (On the Fall of France) · A. J. LIEBLING Letter from London (On the Blitz) · MOLLIE PANTER-DOWNES Survival (On Lieutenant John F. Kennedy) · JOHN HERSEY Cross-Channel Trip (On D Day) · A. J. LIEBLING The Suspended Drawing Room (On post-Blitz London) · S. N. BEHRMAN D Day, Iwo Jima · JOHN LARDNER Letter from Rome (On V-E Day) · PHILIP HAMBURGER Hiroshima · JOHN HERSEY PART TWO · AMERICAN SCENES A Note by Jill Lepore Notes and Comment: July 3, 1943 · E. B. WHITE The Old House at Home (On McSorley’s Old Ale House) · JOSEPH MITCHELL Opera in Greenville (On a lynching trial) · REBECCA WEST Letter from a Campaign Train (On the 1948 presidential campaign) · RICHARD ROVERE Symbol of All We Possess (On the Miss America Pageant) · LILLIAN ROSS PART THREE · POSTWAR A Note by Louis Menand Notes and Comment: November 1, 1947 · E. B. WHITE Greek Diary: Communists, Socialists, and Royalists · EDMUND WILSON The Birch Leaves Falling (On the Nuremberg trials) · REBECCA WEST The Beautiful Spoils: Monuments Men (On Nazi art theft) · JANET FLANNER Come In, Lassie! (On the Red Scare in Hollywood) · LILLIAN ROSS Letter from Washington (On the North Atlantic Pact) · RICHARD ROVERE Die Luftbrücke (On the Berlin airlift) · E. J. KAHN, JR. PART FOUR · CHARACTER STUDIES A Note by Susan Orlean Notes and Comment: April 21, 1945 · E. B. WHITE Pollen Man (On Walt Disney) · ST. CLAIR MCKELWAY AND HAROLD ROSS Rugged Times (On Norman Mailer) · LILLIAN ROSS Lugubrious Mama (On Edith Piaf) · A. J. LIEBLING Gossip Writer (On Walter Winchell) · ST. CLAIR MCKELWAY Goethe in Hollywood (On Thomas Mann) · JANET FLANNER La France et Le Vieux (On Marshal Pétain) · JANET FLANNER The Hot Bach (On Duke Ellington) · RICHARD O. BOYER From Within to Without (On Le Corbusier) · GEOFFREY T. HELLMAN The Great Foreigner (On Albert Einstein) · NICCOLÒ TUCCI The Years Alone (On Eleanor Roosevelt) · E. J. KAHN, JR. El Único Matador (On Sidney Franklin) · LILLIAN ROSS PART FIVE · THE CRITICS Notes and Comment: December 12, 1948 · E. B. WHITE A Note by Joan Acocella CLIFTON FADIMAN Ernest Hemingway Crosses the Bridge (On For Whom the Bell Tolls) EDMUND WILSON Why Do People Read Detective Stories? Jean-Paul Sartre: The Novelist and the Existentialist (On The Age of Reason) LOUISE BOGAN Review of Lord Weary’s Castle (On Robert Lowell) GEORGE ORWELL The Sanctified Sinner (On The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene) W. H. AUDEN Port and Nuts with the Eliots (On “Notes Towards the Definition of Culture” by T. S. Eliot) LIONEL TRILLING Orwell on the Future (On Nineteen Eighty-Four) A Note by David Denby JOHN MOSHER The Great Hildy (On His Girl Friday) Zanuck’s Joads (On The Grapes of Wrath) Charlie’s Hitler (On The Great Dictator) Childe Orson (On Citizen Kane) DAVID LARDNER Pre-Eisenhower (On Casablanca) Blood and Premiums (On Double Indemnity) JOHN MCCARTEN Very Rare Vintage (On The Lost Weekend) None Better (On The Bicycle Thief) A Note by Hilton Als WOLCOTT GIBBS The Boys in the Back Room (On The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill) Well Worth Waiting For (On Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller) What a Wonderful War (On Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific) A Note by Peter Schjeldahl ROBERT M. COATES Assorted Moderns Georges Braque, and the American Abstract Artists LEWIS MUMFORD Rockefeller Center Revisited The Architecture of Power A Note by Alex Ross ROBERT A. SIMON Copland and Shostakovich Current and Recurrent (On Bernstein, Toscanini, and Armstrong) PHILIP HAMBURGER In the Hills (On Tanglewood) May Day at Loxford (On Benjamin Britten) WINTHROP SARGEANT The Violin and Szigeti A Note by Judith Thurman LOIS LONG On the retail customer On ready-to-wear clothes On American milliners On French fashion On college clothes PART SIX · POETRY A Note by Dan Chiasson Home Song · E. B. WHITE The Unknown Citizen · W. H. AUDEN The Ritualists · WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Night Journey · THEODORE ROETHKE Barroom Matins · LOUIS MACNEICE The End of the World · MALCOLM COWLEY The Blind Sheep · RANDALL JARRELL The Lovers · CONRAD AIKEN Sunday-Morning Prophecy · LANGSTON HUGHES A Poet Speaks from the Visitors’ Gallery · ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A Hundred Minnows · MARK VAN DOREN The Triumph of Education · HOWARD NEMEROV At the Fishhouses · ELIZABETH BISHOP Aspects of Robinson · WELDON KEES Awaking · STEPHEN SPENDER At Yearsend · RICHARD WILBUR What I Know About Life · OGDEN NASH The Bight · ELIZABETH BISHOP Song for the Last Act · LOUISE BOGAN PART SEVEN · FICTION A Note by Zadie Smith The Second Tree from the Corner · E. B. WHITE The Jockey · CARSON MCCULLERS Graven Image · JOHN O’HARA The Patterns of Love · WILLIAM MAXWELL Act of Faith · IRWIN SHAW The Enormous Radio · JOHN CHEEVER My Da · FRANK O’CONNOR The Mysteries of Life in an Orderly Manner · JESSAMYN WEST Symbols and Signs · VLADIMIR NABOKOV The Lottery · SHIRLEY JACKSON The Beginning of a Story · ELIZABETH TAYLOR

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Including contributions by W. H. Auden • Elizabeth Bishop • John Cheever • Janet Flanner • John Hersey • Langston Hughes • Shirley Jackson • A. J. Liebling • William Maxwell • Carson McCullers • Joseph Mitchell • Vladimir Nabokov • Ogden Nash • John O’Hara • George Orw
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